150 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Asphondylia attenuatata Felt 

 1909 Felt, E. P. Ent. News, 20:300-1 



This West Indian species was reared in some numbers by Prof. 

 H. A. Ballou, government entomologist, from flower buds and 

 flowers of privet or wild coffee, Clerodendron a c u - 

 1 e a t u m . The male is peculiar on account of the slender, some- 

 what produced antennae, the flagellate segments being provided with 

 unusually small and indistinct circumfili. 



Asphondylia pattersoni Felt 

 191 1 Felt, E. P. Ent. News, 22:301 



This reddish brown midge was reared February 3, 191 1 by Mr 

 W. H. Patterson, St Vincent, W. I., from the flowers of fiddlewood, 

 Citharexylum quadrangulare. 



Asphondylia vincenti Felt 

 191 1 Felt, E. P. Ent. News, 22:109-10 



This species was reared by Mr W. H. Patterson from the fruits 

 ofjussiaea linifolia and J. suf f ruticosa at St Vincent, 

 W. I. 



CINCTICORNIA Felt 



1908 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 124:379 



191 1 N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour., 19:48. 



1913 Kieffer, J. J. Gen. Insect., fasc. 152, p. 90 



1915 Felt, E. P. U. S. Nat. Mus. Proc. 48:197 



This genus comprises a group of very characteristic forms originally 

 supposed by the writer to be cogeneric with Polystepha Kieff. 

 Specimens of C. multifila Felt were submitted to this well- 

 known European authority, who pronounced it a representative 

 of a new genus and consequently this name was proposed. 

 Asphondyliatransversa Felt is the type. 



Antennae consisting of 13 or 14 very rarely 15 sessile or sub- 

 sessile, greatly produced, cylindric segments. There is a distinct 

 tendency toward reduction and certain species have but 13 segments, 

 while others may have the thirteenth and fourteenth greatly reduced. 

 The flagellate segments of the male are provided with from 2 to 15 

 low, distinct, anastomosing circumfili which girdle the greater part 

 of the segment from near the basal fourth to its apex. Normally, 

 the number of circumfili vary from 6 to 15, while in the synthetic 

 C. s i m p 1 a and C. c o n n e c t a we have but 2 circumfili, 

 basal and apical, and a rather well-developed broad band of long 



